Trivial Pursuit Game Was Created While Drunk.
“What’s the most popular cocktail in the U.S.? Do you know the answer, Harold?”
“How the hell would I know that!?”
“The martini.” The doctor replied.
“What card are you reading?” Harold asked.
“Remember playing the board game Trivial Pursuit?”
The Trivial Pursuit board game was first conceived on December 15, 1979, by two beer drinking Canadians, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott who created this world-famous board game. Created with the help of plenty of Carlsberg Beer.
Chris Haney and Scott Abbott spent 2 exhausting years thinking and writing up 6000 questions and answers for the first edition of the Trivial Pursuit game.
1200 of these board games were put together in Niagara-Of-Lake, Ontario, Canada in 1981. These games were sold in the spring of 1982.
Trivial Pursuit became popular immediately to the point where this board game sold 20 million copies in 1984! Thank you, Carlsberg Beer.
Other Trivial Pursuit Game Editions that were produced later…
– Sports
– TV Edition
– 1960’s
– 1980’s
– Baby Boomer
– Walt Disney
– Star Wars
– Lord Of the Rings
– Power Rangers (What!?)
Unfortunately, Chris Haney died by kidney and circulatory problems on May 31, 2010. Survived by his 2 wives and 3 children. Here’s a drink of Carlsberg Beer to you Chris.
Hasbro bought the board game Trivial Pursuit in 2008 for $80 million and is still going strong as the 7th most popular game of all time.